DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan

 in the first place
 首先,第一;從一開始

 in the first place
      adv 1: before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
             [syn: earlier, in the beginning, to begin with,
             originally]
      2: of primary import; "this is primarily a question of
         economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"
         [syn: primarily] [ant: secondarily]